Organic decaf coffee – a growing trend in the organic coffee market

 

 

Organic decaf coffee is becoming the beverage of choice for more and more coffee drinkers interested in environmentally friendly coffee and who want to enjoy their coffee without caffeine.

With the increasingly efficient decaffeinating technologies used today, organic decaf coffee retains the taste and aroma of organic coffee while removing the caffeine, which many coffee drinkers want to reduce in their coffee enjoyment.

There are a variety of processes involved in making organic decaf coffee and one of the increasingly prominent decaffeinating processes is the Swiss Water® method, which Wikipedia defines as follows:

"The Swiss Water Process is a method of decaffeinating coffee beans that was developed by the <I>Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company</I>. To decaffeinate the coffee bean by the Swiss Water method, a batch of green (unroasted) beans is soaked in hot water, releasing caffeine. This process is done until all the caffeine and coffee solids are released into the water. These beans are then discarded. Next, the water passes through a carbon filter, which traps the caffeine molecules but allows the water and the coffee solids to pass through. The caffeine-free water, which comes through, known as "flavor-charged" water by the company, is then put in a similar filtration device, and new coffee beans are added. However, since the flavor-charged water cannot remove any of the coffee solids from the new beans, only the caffeine is released. The process repeats,
filtering out all the caffeine until the beans are 99.9% caffeine free. These beans are removed and dried, and thus retain most if not all of their flavor and smell." Source: Wikipedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination

Drinking organic decaf coffee does not mean that you have to sacrifice your desire to try different blends and roasts. There are a number of companies offering lots of choices in the types of organic decaf coffee they offer, such as coffees from a variety of countries. These companies also provide a number of different types of roasts.